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initialism - Foster Care
- Family Court
- (finance) finance charge
- Football Club
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noun (fibre, fibres outside US)
- (countable) A single piece of a given material, elongated and roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
- The microscope showed a single blue stuck to the sole of the shoe.
- (uncountable) Material in the form of fibers.
- The cloth was made from strange, somewhat rough .
- (textiles) A material whose length is 1000 times its width or more.
- Please find use polyester for this shirt.
- Dietary fiber.
- Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber'.''
- Moral strength and resolve.
- The ordeal was a test of everyone's .
- (mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
- Under this map, any two values in the of a given point on the circle differ by 2π
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noun biderscope
- a flexible fibreoptic device for viewing otherwise inaccessible areas
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noun
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
- A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
- The open country near or belonging to a city -- usually used in plural.
- (physics) A region affected by a particular force.
- magnetic field
- A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
- (mathematics) A set having two operations called addition and multiplication under both of which all the elements of the set are commutative and associative; for which multiplication distributes over addition; and for both of which there exist an identity element and an inverse element.
- The set of rational numbers, <math>\mathbb{Q}</math>, is the prototypical field.
- (sport) An area reserved for playing a game.
- soccer field
- (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
- oil field or oilfield
- gold field or goldfield
- (heraldry) The background of the shield
- (computing) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.
verb
- (context, transitive, sport) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- (context, transitive, sport) To place a team in (a game).
- (transitive) To answer, accept or address.
- She will questions immediately after her presentation.
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noun
- An instance of fix
- Verb, fixing.
- A difficult situation or dilemma.
- A serving of an addictive drug to an addict.
- "Just one !" -Alain Jourgensen
verb (fix, es)
- To mend or repair.
- To attach; to affix.
- To prepare. He fixed dinner for the kids.
- To make a contest, vote, or gamble unfair; to privilege one contestant, usually before the content happens.
- To make a business of getting paid to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion<ref>Sutherland, Edwin H. (ed) (1937): The Professional Thief: by a Professional Thief. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Reprinted by various publishers in subsequent decades.</ref>
- To render an animal (especially a pet) infertile.
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abbreviation
- Florida, a state of the United States of America.
- foreign language
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| flare |
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noun
- A brightly burning light used to attract attention in an emergency, or to illuminate an area.
- The flares steered the traffic away from the accident.
- A widening of the lower legs of trousers and jeans.
- That's a genuine early '70's on those pants.
- (aircraft) The transition from downward flight to level flight just before landing.
- The captain executed the perfectly, and we lightly touched down.
- (baseball) A low fly ball that is hit in the region between the infielders and the outfielders
- Jones hits a little to left that falls for a single.
verb (flar, ing)
- (intransitive): To blaze brightly.
- The blast furnace flared in the night.
- (intransitive): To burn unsteadily.
- (intransitive): To burst out suddenly, as in anger (often with up or out.)
- The insult made him up.
- (transitive): to make flare.
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noun
- (optics) The distance from the center of a lens or curved mirror to the image from an object at infinity (effectively at a distance very much greater than the focal length).
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| focal point |
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noun
- (optics) A focus; a point at which rays of light or other radiation converge
- The centre of any activity
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| fringe |
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noun
- A decorative border.
- A marginal or peripheral part.
- Those members of a political party etc. holding unorthodox views.
- The periphery of a town or city.
- That part of the hair that hangs down over the eyes (US bangs).
- (physics) A light or dark band formed by the diffraction of light.
- (The Fringe) non-mainstream theatre.
verb (fring, ing)
- (transitive) To decorate with fringe.
- (transitive) To serve as a fringe.
adjective
- Outside the mainstream
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